I'm stunned

I just read somewhere that the people who are the most successful in what they do are usually those who are considered arrogant, stuck-up, and proud by their peers. Somehow I hope that's true. But I'm not sure if I want to be one of those people, though.

The reason why I mention this is because this past week I've witnessed firsthand the badmouthing and jeering we humans do to those whom we dislike. Suffice to say that its not pretty. Oh, of course nothing really much is said out loud directly against that person, just a lot of insulting associations and read-between-the-lines kind of insulting statements. One might call it vicious gossip, or underhanded backtalking. Sometimes I'm glad that I can't hear what others say about me behind my back. Leaves me feeling rather dirty, somehow.


*sigh*

It all comes back to the fact that we humans are too judgemental. And that none of us are perfect. Put those two together, and everybody's faults are amplified a hundred times bigger than they're worth. Maybe its the competition. And the fact that nobody like to admit that they are wrong.

Oh, well. It's a fallen world we live in, so fallen we are.